Paul Harris Quotes & Sayings

“Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.”

“Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.”

“When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.”

“It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.”

“The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.”

“In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.”

“Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.”

“Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.”

“If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.”

“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”